Re: ottava spanner terminates at the end of the note, not the end of the bar

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you, Aaron.

Interesting thoughts...

Ken

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 9:21 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-05-13 8:28 pm, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >   The ottava spanner terminates at the end of the note, not at the end
> > of the bar.
> >
> >   How to change this?
> >
> >   Screenshots attached.
>
> Consider the following:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> \relative c'' {
>    % Be careful not to stop the ottava too soon.
>    \ottava 1 c4 e g f8 d | c2. \ottava 0 r4
>
>    % This encompasses the rest as well but is still a little too short.
>    \ottava 1 c4 e g f8 d | c2. r4 \ottava 0
>    c8 d b c~ c2
>
>    % This would be nice...
>    % \override Staff.OttavaBracket.to-barline = ##t
>    % ...but it would appear OttavaBracket is not a
>    % line-spanner-interface, where to-barline lives.
>
>    % A manual adjustment is possible:
>    \once \offset shorten-pair #'(0 . -1) Staff.OttavaBracket
>    \ottava 1 c4 e g f8 d | c2. r4 \ottava 0
>    c8 d b c~ c2
>    \bar "|."
> }
> %%%%
>
> Assuming you only have a few of these you need to manage, the manual
> offset might be sufficient to let you move onto other things in your
> score.  But you will need to review these if you make any changes that
> affect the measure length.  An automated approach might be possible, but
> really I think OttavaBracket should support to-barline.  Something to
> submit to the bug mailing list I guess.
>
> ----
>
> Was almost about to hit send, but then I thought... what if you hid the
> OttavaBracket but used a TextSpanner in its place?
>
> %%%%
> \relative c'' {
>    \once \hide Staff.OttavaBracket
>    \ottava 1
>
>    c4 -\tweak to-barline ##t
>       -\tweak dash-fraction #0.3
>       -\tweak dash-period #1
>       -\tweak bound-details.left.text
>         \markup \vcenter \bold 8
>       -\tweak bound-details.right.stencil
>         #(make-line-stencil 0.1 0 0 0 -0.8)
>       \startTextSpan
>      e g f8 d
>
>    | c2. r4 \ottava 0
>    c8\stopTextSpan d b c~ c2
> }
> %%%%
>
> Hmm... maybe not.  That is a lot of tweaks, and I do not think I matched
> the original OttavaBracket well enough.
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill